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60 THE HOUSE OF DUN ROD.
brother, and to get this uncle'a consent to the transac-
tion, there were granted to him and his wife, Marion
Stewart, under a reversion, the lands of Easter
Kittocliside, occupied l^y Archibald hindsay.*
David Lindsay of Easter Kittocliside was a burgess
of Glasgow. He resided there and was one of the
wealthiest citizens of the time, owning much land and
house property in the town. Besides possessing two 'j
acres in the Broomielaw and several detached tenements
on the north side of the Trongate, he was proprietor
of a considerable part of that district in the centre of
the present city, which is bounded by the Trongate,
the Bridgegate, the Saltmarket, and the Stock wellgate,
a district then called the Mutland or Maitland Croft.
For the better feuing of this land he formed two narrow
lanes, which were long known as Lindsay's Easter and
Lindsay's Wester Wynds, and which still exist as the
Old and New Wynds. f David Lindsay also held in
feu the lands of Limekilns in the parish of East Kilbride,
belonging in superiority to the lairds of Dunrod. J By
his wife, Marion Stewart, he had an only daughter,
Marion, who married Robert Callendar of Bencloich,
Marion Callendar was infeft in the fee
Stirlingshire. §
of her father's estate, but in 1583 she resigned the^
same into her father's hands in favour of her second
son, Thomas. II David Lindsay dying in 1584,11 and)
his daughter, Marion, in the following year,** Thomas
* Acts and Decreets MS., XV., 5.
t Glasgow Protocols, "Vols. VI., VIT., VIII., passivi.
I
Ibid., Vol. v.. No. 1451.
§ Ibid., Vol. v.. No. 1451; Vol. VIII., No. 2320.
Ibid., Vol. v., No. 1451 ; Vol. VIII., II Nos. 250(j, 2507.
H Ibid., Vol. IX., Nos. 2G08, 2()18.
»* Ibid., Vol. IX., Nos., 2830, 28G7.